The writer Belén Gopegui will give a lecture next Wednesday, April 11, within the framework of the program of activities of the Master in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice organized by the Institute of Human Rights and the Faculty of Law of the Universitat de València. The conference, entitled “The rest not noticed: the network in three novels”, will take place in room 1-P20 of the Faculty of Law at 4:00 p.m.
The title comes from the idea, explains the writer, that “nothing makes sense by itself, but rather that each figure, structure or situation must have its background: the rest not noticed.” The writing of novels, he adds, is one of the ways we have access to that “rest not noticed” of the world that surrounds us. “In the talk I will approach the network (Internet) as a figure whose background I have tried to point out my last three novels with three different approaches: ‘Unauthorized access’, ‘The committee of the night’ and ‘Stay this day and tonight with me’ ” For the author, “they are narrations not about the network but narrations with the network or the network that in some way approach different stages and different imaginary configurations of cyberspace”.
“Unauthorized access” is a political-computer thriller with a hacker and a vice president of government as protagonists with personal networks that are established in the digital world. The argument of “The committee of the night” focuses on two women in their thirties wage a battle against trafficking and buying and selling of blood. “Stay this day and tonight with you” is a novel that puts value on merit and privacy to value the human being in front of Google and the business of this multinational information opposed to privacy and secrecy.
The master’s program in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice of the Universitat de València, directed by professors Cristina García Pascual and Rosario Serra, has received the Mention of Excellence from the Ministry of Education, which in Spain have only obtained eight master’s degrees legal.
The Institute of Human Rights of the Universitat de València (IDH-UV) has launched in 2018 a broad program of activities, coinciding with the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Created in 2005, the IDH-UV is part of the Consolider project in which twelve research groups from different Spanish universities participate, coordinated by the Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Institute of the Carlos III University of Madrid.